I have been embarrassed by many things in my life: the time I tripped and fell off a bus drunk in front of a group of teenage boys, cracked a joke at a dinner party that nobody laughed at, and reintroduced myself to someone at the pub whom I had met several times. All of these events still have the capacity to burn my cheeks scarlet as I attempt to sleep at night.
However, one thing that has never troubled me, though, is the fact that I’m 29 years old and still rent a property with two of my friends in London. This, apparently, makes me the minority as, according to new research from Nationwide, 29 is the exact age renters begin to feel red-cheeked about house-sharing, despite 11 per cent of Brits still doing so.
